At the beginning of this story, Alicia allegedly shoots her husband Gabriel in their kitchen, and then she completely stops speaking. She is convicted and confined to a mental institution, but never regains her voice.
Seven years later, psychotherapist Theo Faber contrives to get a job at this institution expressly for the purpose of working with her. He says he wants to help her, but the ethics of his single-minded interest in a female patient seem pretty iffy to me.
Did Alicia really kill her husband? Why doesn't she speak? What is really going on here? The ending was quite a surprise.
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